On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 14:04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:07:41AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
I don't see how the profit works especially when they have been working on it for 14 years. Don't they have to sustain their employees? Its easier to see how they make money if the launch fails(assuming the launch vehicle is cheaper than the money collected for sending the payload). But its just $8000 and maybe worth taking the chance and maybe that's what they want!
No idea whether they succed, but never underestimate a few TBytes of solid-state passing overhead, equipped with a lens or just as maildrop, or your own 3 G network in LEO.
I predict 0 days will pass before the MAFIAA starts shooting these down for precisely that reason. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]